In its general sense, allocation describes any process of assigning or apportioning elements according to defined criteria.
Within the context of life cycle assessment, allocation is often used as technical jargon to refer specifically to co-product allocation. Co-product allocation involves partitioning the input or output flows of a process or product system between the product system under study and one or more other product systems. The partitioning results in as many partitioned systems as there are co-products in the original system. The sum of the partitioned systems equals the system before the partitioning.
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